This is an excellent idea and addresses many of my concerns about court packing. Expanding the current system by a couple of seats just feels like escalating a game Democrats are already bad at. Something like this that redefines how the Court functions feels much more like reform than revenge.

The best kind of correct.

Honestly? No idea. I’m just desperately trying to avoid a mind-numblingly boring project at work, and thought it’d be fun to call Manafort “Paulie.”

I mean, the judge over the Manafort hearing is a Trumpist, too, but those lawyers still managed to convince him Paulie needed a few years of jail time.

Yup. I don’t blame you if you choose not to believe me, as that’s certainly not how things work now, but this was late ‘98, and I was living in the dorms in a tiny mountain college town.

I do remember them processing debits *before* credits, since credits-before-debits was a selling point of the bank I switched to. Rent due on payday? Hope you’ve already got enough in the bank to cover it.

Definitely, though the Jezebel team does seem to be quicker all around.  Better developed snark senses, maybe?

Exactly, so consider how surprised I was to check my bank balance. Unfortunately, this was 21 years ago, so I don’t have the ATM receipts any longer.  As I recall, they charged multiple NSF fees, and then also charged daily negative balance fees which were much higher.

I opened my first adult bank account with Wells Fargo.  A few months in I bounced a $2 check (I was a broke college kid), and within a week had $650 in fees from a fifty-cent overdraft.  I just never went back to the bank and opened a new account elsewhere.  That must be why they kept your extra payment.

I check CNN for breaking news.  I check Splinter for snark and lefter-than-me analysis.  I’m okay if that takes a little extra time.

2.) An Ivy League degree listed on a resume might get an interview faster than other institutions, but the interview itself will quickly put the lie to the idea that the applicant was a star student (assuming they weren’t, of course).

Doesn’t passage in the House require a vote in the Senate as well?  I thought that was why the bill blocking the border wall executive order was a big deal.  Mitch can’t just bury it anymore.

Born in Denver, live in Northern Colorado.  She always comes to my mind first when I think about Boulder, too, even though you just told us about her.  I prefer Boulder to Colorado Springs, but I generally avoid both.

Fair points, and it’s not like I’d refuse to vote for Hickenlooper if he was nominated. At the same time, though, human decency and basic competence shouldn’t need to be stated as requirements for the job, current President notwithstanding. No candidate should get praise simply because they’re not the living…

As a Colorado resident, it’s not that I think Hick would be a *bad* president. I mean, a soggy tuna sandwich would be better in the role than what we have right now. I just have zero interest in supporting milquetoast centrist white dudes anymore. I want my leaders to have big ideas they’re willing to fight tooth and…

That’s just called “saving for retirement.”

Side note: I hope this doesn’t sound ruder than I intend. I was going for tongue-in-cheek joshing. Trolling Reddit is the online equivalent of what I imagine walking a neighborhood beat would be.  I appreciate you saving me the hassle.

How am I only learning about this now?  C’mon, Kotaku!  I count on you to pay attention to Reddit for me so I don’t have to.  I expect quicker turnaround in the future.

I’ll show him the exact same amount of sympathy and compassion Conservatives show other non-violent offenders: none.

I’m not going to get into a long explanation of the benefits of grammar, but I will say that your position that grammar only matters when you want to feel smug is as dismissive and reductive as prescriptivist grammar police who believe everything has to conform to the rules they were taught.